The Rectification & Note And Study Of Mengchuan Posthumous Manuscript

Liu Fu (1217-1276 A.D.), named Sheng Bo, Zhi Wong and Meng Chuan, called Mr. Meng Chuan by scholars, lived in Yueqing county (which now is belongs to Zhejiang province) in the last stage of Southern Song Dynasty. He gained good reputation when he was still young. He entered Taixue in the 10th year of Chunyou (1250 A.D.). Then he was arranged to Nan'an Jun because of attacking a powerful minister called Ding Daquan, and later returned to Taixue. In the 3rd year of Jingding (1262 A.D.), he was admitted as a Jinshi in the highest Imperial Keju-Examinadon. Then he was appointed as the secretary of Zhaoqingjun officer. He got promottW in some important position such as Zhongshusheren, Libushangshu and so on at the later times of Song Dynasty. At the beginning of Gong emperor, he came to Guangdong along with the Two Kings. In the 2nd year (1276 A.D.), he was appointed as Canzhizhengshi, and then he died of illness at Luofu.Liu Fu's poem and prose works was collected and sorted out by his younger brother Liu Yingkui. The four-volume MENGCHUAN POSTHUMOUS MANUSCRIPT was survived till today. The content of the works includes 'poems such as communicating poems, traveling poems, the life poems, mourning poems, the poems to express feelings and so on and proses such as Fu and Epitaph. These works have reflected that the author was deeply affected by Confucianism especially Neo-Confucianism as well as Jiangxi, Siting and Jianghu schools of poetry which were popular at that time. MENGCHUAN POSTHUMOUS MANUSCRIPT has its unique artistic styles and values. Meanwhile, there is no doubt that the works also has some deficiencies in its ideological and its artistry.